Grave an exhibition of telephone to financial men Thursday and to press on Friday -- experiments were most successful -- Bailey pushing Puskas hard to accept 50,000 francs cash and so much stock of company he is afraid that Puskas will back out -- Puskas also has an offer of 100,000 francs for France and Russia and Adams thinks he can do better -- Bailey can't do anything with Gray or Phelps -- magneto phones useless to try and show whwn there are 50 or 60 Frenchmen and everyone talking at once -- some of the newspapers say Gray telephone shown but it wasn't Bailey paid for that to show what kind of fellow Bailey is -- describes what happened at exhibition and how Herz said Edison telephone best before audience and was now sorry he let it slip through his fingers

Adams, James

Batchelor, Charles

Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph

Bailey, Joshua Franklin

Gray, Elisha

Phelps, George May

Edison, Thomas Alva

Puskas, Theodore

1878-08-11

1870-1879

Letter

Expositions, demonstrations, lectures

Telephone

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[D7840ZBI], Letter from James Adams to Charles Batchelor, August 11th, 1878

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Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University